“One writes not to be read but to breathe...one
writes to think, to pray, to analyze. One writes to clear one's mind, to
dissipate one's fears, to face one's doubts, to look at one's mistakes--in
order to retrieve them. One writes to capture and crystallize one's joy, but
also to disperse one's gloom. Like prayer--you go to it in sorrow more than
joy, for help, a road back to 'grace.'"—American essayist, diarist and
aviator Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001), War Within and Without: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1939-1944 (1980)
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